Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence Director

4 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R1 000 000 - R3 000 000 per year


Minimum requirements: 

  • B.Sc. (Eng) or B.Eng. preferable but other relative tertiary qualifications will be considered. 
  • Registration as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) would be advantageous.
  • Minimum 10 years broad-based engineering and manufacturing experience in and FMCG or related industries. 
  • Minimum 5 years experience at executive/senior level within a matrix organisation as either head of engineering, or head of manufacturing excellence (or similar), or both.
  • Relevant senior management experience in managing a variety of internal and external stakeholders
  • Willingness to travel extensively.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and drive the implementation of the company's engineering and manufacturing excellence strategy, plans, vision, and goals, and ensure alignment with the overall business strategy.
  • Provide specialist advice to the business pertaining to engineering and manufacturing excellence matters.
  • Provide business partnership and support at an executive team level and within business units, and monitor the implementation of engineering and manufacturing excellence initiatives and priorities
  • Ensure engineering and manufacturing excellence initiatives are key considerations when planning business activities.
  • Capital planning, prioritisation and allocation of funding as well as capacity planning oversite.
  • Major engineering project scoping, management, and execution (ownership of scope, project management and contractor relationship).
  • Project engagement and oversight (develop and monitor project governance principles and provide oversight).
  • EAM program reporting and asset care (develop roadmap and conduct audits on status).
  • Ensure that all operations comply with relevant safety standards and regulations.
  • Act as the designated Section 16.2 (of the Occupational Health and Safety Act) appointee for the business.
  • Own the Stock to Cost (S2C) business process.
  • Develop and monitor fit-for-purpose manufacturing practices and standards for the business. 
  • Benchmark and monitor cost of production and coach / challenge relevant production managers to drive improvements.
  • Design, coordinate and monitor a fit-for-purpose continuous improvement (CI) and savings roadmap. Monitor the savings project pipeline and provide oversight to the executive team.
  • Develop a team of continuous improvement professionals within the group who will provide support for key CI and productivity projects.
  • Develop engineering and technical capability building programs in support of the company's engineering and manufacturing strategy.
  • Develop manufacturing capability building programs to enable world class manufacturing across the business.
  • Lead the Lean Six Sigma - LSS (and/or other relevant programs) training program and track progress of delivery of various improvement programs delivered by LSS practitioners.
  • Champion talent development and succession planning for engineering and manufacturing.

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